Links for 2015-02-22

Lest we forget, the sheer bullshitting ineptitude of Fianna Fail as they managed to shamble into destroying Ireland’s economy in 2008:

Once that nasty bit of business was done, the Cabinet departed en masse for six weeks on their summer holidays, despite the emerging economic and financial tsunami. Cowen and family famously took up residence in a caravan park in Connemara as opposed to his ‘official’ residence at the Mannin Bay Hotel nearby. When pressed by our reporter Niamh Horan as to why he was not at his station, he defensively replied: “I don’t understand it. First the media have a go at me because I’m taking a holiday with my family and then they come down to see if I’m having a good time!” he exclaimed.